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Large Dungeon

I decided to give making a nice big map a try. I'm not sure what I'm gonna spice the map up with, I'm thinking some cracks and holes in the floor here an there, a few skeletons and piles o' bones, and the roundish room in the top right will probably have a nice beveled magic circle dealie filled with blood.

What do you guys think might be some interesting stuff to include? Coffins/Sarcophagi? Slime-filled pools?

Straight-up man-made dungeons are pretty boring until you start decorating...the list of things to decorate with are innumerable. Just to spice up the floor you could use some rugs, stairs, platforms, holes, pits traps, cracks, rubble, arcane circles, stains, and some light colored shading in the middle to denote "worn" areas where the people walk.

Once you start thinking vertically you start adding columns, bookcases, tables, desks, chairs, stands, musical apparatus, torches, beds, junk piles, coffins, chests, and all of the dollhouse amenities that you can think of...just leave enough room for people to move around in.

If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)

Okay, got some of this put together. The roundish room in the top right is the ritual room, with magic circles laid into the floor, then filled with the blood of human sacrfices to enhance their power.

Directly to the south is a hallway that still remains almost untouched from the dungeon's original use as a crypt. When the current denizens arrived and attempted to remove the sarcophagi and their moldering corpses, those in this hallway refused to be move. Vehemently. Perhaps the statue's eerie presence has something to do with it? The ritualists prefer not to bother with such questions, and have barricaded the entrances to the hallway. (Translation: Zombies here!)

The room to the south of the hallway has been changed into a makeshift barracks for the henchmen in service of the ritualists.